Tag: women writers
Reaching New Audiences
Before I became a professional novelist and after I left my previous corporate law gig, I spent several years on the executive team of a start-up company, Hybrid Mom, helping mom entrepreneurs and designers tell their stories and market innovative new products. Originally a print magazine, Hybrid Mom moved into the e-commerce world in 2009 […]
The Tape on the Cutting Room Floor
I never intended to write a memoir. I didn’t even like memoirs—novels have been my drug of choice since I was a kid, and my trade, as well, as a professor of literature. I was a bit of a snob about memoirs, to tell the truth. I’d read reviews and think, oh no, not another […]
Writer At Work: Do Not Disturb!
You wake. You want to write. You know you have to write. You’re on deadline. Your head is still on the pillow. You reach for the phone. You should’ve reached for the laptop. But… Let me just check my email, my messages, the weather, the news… Just for a minute… And suddenly its noon. You […]
Writing Killer Suspense
The thrill that mystery fans crave derives from a writer’s ability to create tension, on the page and in a reader’s mind. Knowing how to apply tension in any genre can be useful. With a mystery, it’s an essential ingredient in keeping readers hooked from the first page to the last. Tension can arise from […]
A Former Lawyer’s Take On the Craft of Writing
I’m a former divorce lawyer who gave up the law to become a stay-at-home mum. I haven’t been on a creative writing course or studied language or literature at any level higher than school. I haven’t even opened a book on the subject! So I’m no expert on the ‘official’ rules of writing. But I […]
Why I Wrote Grief Works
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving (Scribner; January 16, 2018; https://griefworks.co.uk) – is a warm, compassionate guide to grief and grieving by prominent UK bereavement expert Julia Samuel. Samuel – close friend to the late Princess Diana and godmother to Prince George – has spent 25 years working with the bereaved as a […]
Let Writing Be the Cure
Writing is my passion, my therapy, and the way I process the world. Even as a child, I lived in my own headspace with stories that allowed me to imagine a bright future with alternating happy endings—depending on whether I wanted to marry Donny Osmond or become the next Charlotte Bronte. After my young son […]
Writing to Process Trauma, by Elizabeth Moore
A few months after my daughter Cassie died, I stumbled upon a chat room for suicide survivors. All the participants had recently lost a loved one to suicide. In all my years of being a registered nurse and helping patients’ families cope with grief, I had never seen such raw and tortured emotions as those […]
The Unglamorous Part Of Writing
Writing is a solitary profession and extremely unglamorous. When I write, I need zero distractions: no Twitter, dirty dishes, Rightmove, eBay, Netflix or wine. In order to finish my book, I knew I needed to remove myself from all of these things, which is how I ended up in a rudimentary cabin on the moors, […]
On Writing The Tattooist Of Auschwitz
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on an incredible true story. Those words are stamped on the front cover of my book. What they don’t say is how finding and telling a true story can change the life of the writer forever. Let me tell you about Lale Sokolov. You can read his story in […]
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